LAKE DARDANELLE This is our top pick this week for all species. Largemouth bass are spawning and are hitting topwaters really well. Buzzbaits, Whopper Poppers, Frogs and Storm Chug Bugs are working well. You also can catch them on Hoax Fish Bamboozies, Hoax Fish Scam Shad, crankbaits and spinnerbaits. Crappie have been excellent on minnows and jigs along the grass and cattails. White jigs, chartreuse jigs, black chartreuse, pink and red are all working great. White bass and stripers are in the creeks and eagerly hitting topwaters, hair jigs, spinnerbaits, jerkbaits and swimbaits. Bream fishing is excellent on worms and crickets around logjams and stumps in the creeks. Catfish has been excellent on worms, stink bait and cut bait off of main river points and flats.
LAKE MILLWOOD Chatterbaits in black/blue/purple and spring bream colors are taking 3- to 5-pound largemouths. War Eagle spinnerbaits in cole slaw, spot remover and white/chartreuse are taking nice keeper-size largemouths in Mud Lake, Horseshoe and McGuire oxbows. For largemouths on flats near deeper creek channels with stumps and timber, use plastic lizards, chatterbaits, Bass Assassin Shads, lizards and Brush Hogs in black/blue, black/purple or plum. Large schools of white bass are between McGuire Lake and Patterson Shoals. Points all along north end of Little River are holding large schools of whites and hybrids. Shad-colored Bomber and XCalibur crankbaits, chrome/blue or Smokey Joe Rat-L-Traps, Little Georges, Rocket Shads, Little Cleos, Spin Traps and Blakemore Road Runners have been effective. Crappie are being caught around cypress trees in 5-8 feet of depth with a white/chartreuse hair jig, and a flat-tail grub in smoke with chartreuse tip, and minnows.
ARKANSAS RIVER (Cadron Pool) Fishing is great right now. Bass have largely finished spawning and can be caught around current breaks and wing dams with squarebill crankbaits, spinnerbaits and Crock-O-Gator Head Knocker buzzbaits. Looking for spawning fish in protected backwaters with BioSpawn ExoSticks and lizards around any type of shallow wood.
Sports on 04/13/2017